The temperature on September 8, 1956 was between 8.4 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Sudan achieves independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom.
January 26 » Soviet Union cedes Porkkala back to Finland.
March 20 » Tunisia gains independence from France.
June 28 » in Poznań, workers from HCP factory go to the streets, sparking one of the first major protests against communist government both in Poland and Europe.
September 9 » Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
December 19 » Irish-born physician John Bodkin Adams is arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 patients. Eventually he is convicted only of minor charges.
Day of death March 2, 1960
The temperature on March 2, 1960 was between 8.2 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 5.1 mm of rain during 8.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 17 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
March 22 » Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser.
April 13 » The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.
May 6 » More than 20million viewers watch the first televised royal wedding when Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey.
June 25 » Cold War: Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union.
November 4 » At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Dr. Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees creating tools, the first-ever observation in non-human animals.
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